This may be a valuable tool for that new CSS3 webstuff. Or not.

Death, or Near Death? Hospice care for my daughter was a good way to improve her recent passing - hopefully helping her toward some kind of afterlife. But the near death experience alone was beautiful in its own way, and has been documented by many others (Previously).

God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible -- Almost. God's wife, Asherah, was a powerful fertility goddess, according to a theologian.

RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? "Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics."

If I can't fly with the penguins... . then let me swim with the baby elephants more inside

New Death Ritual Found in Himalaya—27 De-fleshed Humans. In high cliffside caves, explorers find 1,500-year-old bones.

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"The Lost Thing" by Shaun Tan. [Via]

How the human penis lost its spines [Via]

London or Otherwise UK Meetup! I'm going to be in the UK (Cambridge specifically) till 20 Mar. So now would be a good time to arrange a meetup or three? more inside

Audio slideshow: Human Planet. "From the icy Arctic to Africa's dense jungles - and the mountain tops of Mongolia to the deep waters of the Pacific - the BBC series Human Planet has explored mankind's incredible relationship with nature." [Via]